CD Review from DailyOM
DailyOM
June 24, 2008
A
Healing Journey: Words, Music & Sounds to Help You to Heal
Gene Krackehl is an acclaimed Reiki healer with impeccable credentials.
Author of You Are the Healer, he knows his stuff in that weird, unfathomably
deep way of those who are called to the craft. He's the real deal, and
you can feel it in his every syllable. Thus it is no surprise that benevolent
magic hangs all over the proceedings in his CD, A Healing Journey. It's
Krackehl's gift to the world, a beautiful mix of sound and words, perfectly
pitched to open chakras and heal long-hidden wounds of the psyche and
soul. "Change is inevitable, and you've reached a crossroads in your
life," says Krackehl. He has you visualize sitting on a mountaintop,
looking out at "the vast expanse of your life." He rolls over
each word with a loving, measured voice, as if he's got an ace hypnotist
buried in the deliberate rhythms of his cadences. Musical touches range
from an opening trumpet call, cycling piano chords, thunderous didgeridoo
and tribal drums, string-instrument wafts, sudden stabs of synthesizer,
and the ambient sounds of nature. At times things can sound almost classical.
Tracks alternate between sounds and vocal guidance. "Identify those
threatening feelings that surround you; see them from a new perspective,"
says Krackehl. In the distance is the faint peal of thunder and an acidly
winding and uncoiling synthesizer note. Winding surf and faint peals of
thunder and gradually burly horn sections and church organs come in always
with spine-activating buzzing. Krackehl's music is all the more precious
for being so simple and elegant, and his judicious use of vocal commands
makes this fine for when you're relaxing or doing chores instead of deep,
guided meditation (though this is fine for that as well). Tracks, like
the amazing "A Better Place," are beautiful illustrations of
when art (as in the casually brilliant piano melodics that coincide suddenly
with sitar, for example), function (the buzzing, spinal column-awakening
sound), and purity of intent all meet. As, under Krackehl's instruction,
you "illuminate" the threats for your "immune system to
target later," you realize that what physics proves and what the
spiritual teachers say is totally feasible: We can create changes to our
bodily systems at the smallest levels through visualization and intent.
You can feel the truth of it in the simple but effective magic on A Healing
Journey, and the best part is you can take it as many times per day as
you want.
